Category: Submissions

The Compact Arm Bar on Magic Monday

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Small Space Arm Bar For the “Magic Moment” this week Chris shared with us a sweet Arm Bar that works well in confined, compact, or smaller spaces.  I especially like how it gives you control of your opponent even before you put the arm bar on.  I tried to use it on Blake when we…

Can Opener Double Arm Bar Defense

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Can Opener Double Arm Bar Defense Part 1 – JiuJitsuMap.com Can Opener Double Arm Bar Defense Part 2 – JiuJitsuMap.com We went over the Double Arm Bar in class last week.  For a guy like me with long legs it really was a eye opener.  I think I’ll have to try it more often.  KillerJ…

BJJ Technique – Can Opener Defense

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Can Opener Arm Bar Defense One of the first times I really got hurt in BJJ was when I under estimated the Can Opener Submission, a neck crank.  I didn’t think I was in trouble.  I figured I could bend inward enough that it couldn’t be effective.  When my neck started popping it was to…

BJJ Technique “The Giant Johnson”

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The Giant Johnson I didn’t know the name of this technique and I’m sure I embarrassed Mark some by putting his name to it.  We all know that he didn’t invent it any more then Renzo did the Triangle but I had to put some label on it.  You can’t go around calling it the…

Developing Technique Combinations in Jiu-Jitsu

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Omoplata Combinations John B. Will blogged “Mission Control“, a post about building technique combinations.  He made mention of Eddie Bravo’s system and how it has a starting point to move into different techniques and submissions.  In Eddie’s book Mastering The Rubber Guard he has a excellent flow chart that shows how it all works together. …

Fail Omoplata To Arm Bar Technique

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Fail Omoplata to Arm Bar Part 1 Fail Omoplata to Arm Bar Part 2 A while ago I posted “Side Control to Omoplata“.  Chris in our advanced class, last night, expanded on that technique by showing us how to get a Kimura should the attempt at a Omoplata fail.  Both of the videos show the…

Side Control to Omoplata

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Side Control to Omoplata This week in advanced class we went over a very interesting way of getting Omoplata from side control or cross-body.  In the video, Chris in the white gi, demonstrates the technique on Justin in the blue gi.  I found when Chris tried it on me he had to really get the…